Franz Anton von Plettenberg

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Imperial Count Franz Anton von Plettenberg and Wittem (* November 5, 1735 , † May 30, 1766 ) was canon in Münster and Hildesheim .

Life

Franz Anton von Plettenberg grew up as the son of Franz Joseph von Plettenberg and his wife Aloysia Steyer von Lamberg (1718–1796, daughter of Prince Franz Anton von Lamberg and his wife Princess Ludovica Friederike Ernestine von Hohenzollern-Hechingen ) together with his younger siblings

  • Aloysia ( canoness in Nancy ),
  • Friedrich Clemens August (1742–1771, hereditary marshal and administrator of Nordkirchen, ⚭ 1762 Maria Anna von Galen (1752–1829, daughter of Wilhelm Ferdinand von Galen )), father of Maximilian Friedrich von Plettenberg (1771–1813), heir to Nordkirchen Castle ,
  • Maria (Salentinian in Vienna),
  • Bernhardine (1743–1779), ⚭ 1762 Prince Dominik Andreas von Kasunitz-Rietberg (1739–1812) and
  • Friedrich Ludwig (1745–1796, Canon in Paderborn)

in one of the oldest and most important noble families in Westphalia . This was in 1724 by the Emperor Charles VI. raised to the rank of imperial count .

Franz Anton received on Preces of the emperor in 1756 a Dompräbende in Munster and two years later in Hildesheim . It only remained in the possession of these prebends for a short time, because in 1759 it renounced both Hildesheim and Münster, here in favor of Friedrich Christoph von Boeselager .

After bankruptcy proceedings were opened against his father, he took over the rule of Nordkirchen from him in 1764 and tried to settle debts. In 1764 he married Sophia Alexandrina von Droste zu Füchten (1748-1817). After his early death about two years later, she married Clemens August Maria Droste zu Vischering .

literature

  • Wilhelm Kohl : The Diocese of Münster 4.2. The Domstift St. Paulus zu Münster , NF 17.2, published by the Max Planck Institute for History in Göttingen, Verlag Walter de Gruyter GmbH & Co. KG, Berlin, ISBN 978-3-11-008508-2 .
  • Sven Solterbeck: Blue blood and red numbers. Westphalian nobility in bankruptcy 1700–1815. Waxmann Verlag, Münster 2018, ISBN 978-3-8309-3869-9 .

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personal data
SURNAME Plettenberg, Franz Anton von
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Plettenberg and Wittem, Franz Anton von (full name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Canon in Münster and Hildesheim
DATE OF BIRTH November 5, 1735
DATE OF DEATH May 30, 1766